Ain't that the truth! You see them all the time, particularly at 7-11 stores, laying out as much as $50 a pop for lottery tickets. I would suggest that high schools offer personal finance courses (maybe they do, but not in my day), but, unfortunately, these kind of people wouldn't pay attention to the lessons, anyway.
Sad to see hard earned money go down the drain so easily. Couldn't they at least use EBT money, as they do here in MA?